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J.R. Campbell, MFA, PGCert. in Ph.D. Supervision

Professor and Director

J.R. Campbell completed a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Design in 1994 and a Master of Fine Arts in Textile Arts and Costume Design from the University of California in 1996. He then taught, textiles, computer-aided fashion design and color theory in San Francisco before being appointed assistant professor in the Department of Textiles and Clothing at Iowa State University in 1998. He was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor there in 2004. In July 2005, he moved to Scotland to become Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Textiles at the Glasgow School of Art, where he directed research for the Centre, located in the School of Design. While in Glasgow, Campbell completed a Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert.) course in Supervising Postgraduate Research Degrees for Professionals in Art, Design and Communication from the Centre for Learning and Teaching in Art and Design at University of the Arts London, which was granted in November 2006. He has been a visiting scholar and conducted workshops at the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology in China and the Auckland University of Technology's Textile Design Laboratory in New Zealand. Campbell started his position as Professor and Director of The Fashion School in July 2009.

Campbell has been researching, designing and creating artwork with digital textile technology for over twelve years. His work pushes the limits of imaging technologies as they relate to clothing, our environment and the human form. Campbell's art/design work has been shown in over seventy national or international exhibitions, receiving twenty awards, including the International Artist of the Year Award for the South Korean Fashion & Culture Association in 2010. Campbell has consulted for a number of academic institutions as they have integrated the technology into their teaching/research labs, and has published on subjects of design issues, controlling color and integrating the technology into the design process for textiles and apparel.

Campbell launched his TechStyleLAB concept in the Fashion School at Kent State University in 2009. The TSLAB functions as a research, teaching and commercial environment to investigate the broadest range of digital textile and fashion design technologies and their implications for new business development and sustainable practices.

2007

Mackintosh Textiles Research/Exhibition Proposal. Exhibition space and support awarded for proposal to install a research-led exhibition into the Charles Rennie Mackintosh textile designs held in the Hunterian Archives at the University of Glasgow.Hunterian Art Gallery and Museums.£18,960 + exhibition space awarded.

2007

Communicating the transitions: Relationships of image and form in digitally printed 2D to 3D textile art. New Craft Future Voices. Paper submitted to support juried exhibition proposal for exhibition to be installed during the New Craft Future Voices conference held at Duncan of Jordanstone College, University of Dundee, Scotland from 04 - 06 July 2007. ISBN: 1 899837 54 X.Published online at http://www.newcraftfuturevoices.com (available at http://www.lulu.com)

2008

Mackintosh Re-interpreted: Original Sketches to Digitally Created Fabrics.From the Centre for Advanced Textiles, The Glasgow School of Art.Hunterian Art Gallery and Museum, University of Glasgow, Scotland. 5th September – 6th December, 2008.

2007

2007 International Textile and Apparel Association Juried Design Exhibition. Invited by ITAA Executive Board as Curator of the ITAA Design Exhibition and Chair of the ITAA Mounted Exhibit, Installation at the gallery on the campus of California State University, Los Angeles, California in conjunction with the annual ITAA conference.Exhibition dates: 30th October – 30th November, 2007. Exhibition catalogues produced; Ist edition ISBN: 978-1-885715-07-4. Second edition (available on http://www.lulu.com) ISBN: 978-1-8857-1505-0.

2003

Digital Wanderers: Scratching the Surface with Technology and Fabric.Online Exhibition of International Artists using digital fabric printing technology.Shown online at www.fiberscene.comMay 1 – July 15, 2003. (continues online in the fiberscene "archives" section of the website.

2000

Digital Connections in Imagery, Cloth and the Human Form. Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Lincoln, Nebraska. January, 2001. Show can be viewed online at: http://www.design.iastate.edu/IDRO/digicloth.html. Campbell created 20 new art pieces to display in this exhibition, 4 of which were collaborative works.

2007

Campbell, J.R.,Communicating the transitions: Relationships of image and form in digitally printed 2D to 3D textile art. New Craft Future Voices. Conference held at Duncan of Jordanstone College, University of Dundee, Scotland from 04 - 06 July 2007. ISBN: 1 899837 54 X. Website at http://www.newcraftfuturevoices.com (available at http://www.lulu.com)

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